Adobe Photoshop® Elements 4.0 for Windows & Macintosh

Adobe Photoshop® Elements 4.0 for Windows & Macintosh is Adobe’s photo-editing software for amateur users, enthusiasts, digital photographers, and persons having an interest in digital photo editing. The Windows version came in September 2005, while the Macintosh version came in March 2006. Photoshop Elements retains the core elements of photo-editing tools found in Adobe Photoshop excluding the professional features. Some of the professional features can be simulated through few tools in Elements like layer masks and quick mask; however, for professionals, the full featured Adobe Photoshop is the answer to their professional demands.

Adobe Photoshop® Elements 4.0 for Windows & Macintosh does not have the following professional features.

Adobe Photoshop® Elements 4.0 for Windows & Macintosh is not overwhelming to the beginner. The learning curve is also not steep. How-Tos provide a step by step tutorial to enable users to go along the way and automated features like magic selection brush, magic extractor, automatic red eye removal tool, stitching multiple photos for creating panoramas, posting Web photo galleries online, and many other user friendly features are a great help for beginners. This version does not include certain earlier version features like File Browser, Auto Fix Window and Send to TiVo. The removal of the File Browser is compensated with the Organizer that lets you browse folders with unmanaged pictures. The Auto Fix window and the Send to TiVo is simply gone and is not compensated with any other tool. Version 4.0 offers many new features like face tagging, automatic red eye removal, enhanced slide shows, skin tone adjustment, magic selection brush, magic extractor, straighten tool, and other small but significant enhancements making it an extremely useful photo suite that every digital camera owner would pride to possess.